Proverbs 2:19-21

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¹⁹Anyone who goes to her never returns
    or regains the paths of life.
²⁰Take care, then, that you follow the way of the good
    and keep to the paths of the righteous.
²¹For the upright will live in the land,^[a]
    and those who are innocent will remain there.

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Proverbs 2:21 The upright will live in the land: i.e., in the land of Canaan that had been promised to the people by their God (see Gen 17:8; Deut 4:1). The psalmist (Ps 37:9, 11, 29) says that the upright will possess the land (see also Mt 5:5: “The meek . . . will inherit the earth”).

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